On 6/29/12 11:58 AM, Mark Rejhon wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Kevin Smith <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I agree that it's undesirable in most scenarios to completely hide > useful features from the users. I agree that RTT is a useful tool. > > I only disagree with the need to mandate configuration behaviour in > the XEP - how features are exposed to the users is ultimately not > something we can dictate. > > > Fair from a spec perspective... > ...There may be situations outside of the context of accessibility. > XMPP is capable of things that original creators probably didn't think > of -- including things like OCR servers (send image, get text), voice > transcription on the web, security alarm systems, etc. > > That said, it's also important from a perspective because some > government departments, i.e. (fcc.gov <http://fcc.gov>, access-board.gov > <http://access-board.gov>, ada.gov <http://ada.gov>) are currently > updating policy documents, as well -- demonstrations of XEP-0301 was > provided at FCC text-to-911 panel, and the Access Board is having a > meeting with some key members in the real-time text group -- > specifically surprising us with a request to look at the various > technologies.
We're protocol designers here, not public policy regulators. If folks in the policy domain want to define regulations about how to use a protocol in practice, they are free to do so. However, it's not our job to directly reflect policy regulations in our protocol specifications, even if we knew the content of such regulations and could figure out a way to harmonize the policies being defined by different regulations. > Perhaps it does little damage of a few programs does not load an > XEP-0301 plugin by default (A popular client, Pidgin, doesn't load the > audio/video plugins by default, either), > ....but it does a lot of damage to Accessibility if a large company lets > through audio/video to "ring through", but blocks RTT until specifically > turned on by going through several menus. Again, that is a matter of policy, not protocol. > I've already added one additional sentence to Section 5 of XEP-0301 to > specifically discourage stopping advertising XEP-0301 (using 'SHOULD' > normative) as the /main/ method of turning off or ending an RTT conversation That seems fine. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
